Hi Uday, Uday Reddy <[email protected]> writes: > No, there is no attempt to get rid of the mbox format.
Understood. I am only worried about incompatibilities that break other software. Hopefully this is an unnecessary worry. > Recall that the > original question was "how can I save MIME-decoded text?" One option is to > decode it and leave it in the folder. Then the folder becomes non-RFC (not > 7-bit ASCII any more). I suspect this will break very little software. As long as there is a path back to a 7-bit ASCII, not worried at all. I wouldn't even be worried about non-mbox as long as there was a bidirectional path to mbox. > Mail folders are much better for organizing, categorizing and > searching email than file system directory trees are. In > fact, I think that in the long run, VM will probably turn into > a semantically organized file system for email. Absolutely. maildir doesn't scale beyond a tiny amount of mail. For a lot of us, mbox is reaching it's limits. This is why I was musing about an abstraction between an underlying storage format being a way to scale vm to much larger mail collections. > Mairix is an email indexing tool with a VM interface. Check out this blog > post, for example: > > http://robert-adesam.blogspot.com/ Thanks for the pointer. I had noticed mairix, but not the interface to VM, which is an absolute requirement. Cheers, Mark
